PrefaceChapter 1. The Populist ArchetypeChapter 2. American PanoramaChapter 3. Luddites and LaborersChapter 4. Voyage of the BismarckChapter 5. The Associationalist WayChapter 6. Unemployment and ReactionChapter 7. The Age of ModerationChapter 8. Things Come ApartChapter 9. Trumped UpChapter 10. Breaking PointChapter 11. ContainmentChapter 12. Au Revoir Europe?Chapter 13. Prospects
Barry Eichengreen is Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His previous books include Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System and Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939.
"Barry Eichengreen is the world leader in distilling the lessons of
economic history for the policy makers of today. This important
book is the best we yet have on populism and the antidotes it
demands." --Lawrence H. Summers, President Emeritus and Charles W.
Eliot University Professor, Harvard University
"No one makes economic history relevant to today while doing
justice to the past like Barry Eichengreen. The Populist Temptation
is the best of American and European perspectives on the worst of
current EU and US politics. Sobering and sensible, this is a
necessary interpretative guide to our times." --Adam S. Posen,
President, Peterson Institute for International Economics
"Finally, a superb book that places populism in its proper
historical context. And who better to write it than Barry
Eichengreen, a master at shedding light on our contemporary
economic problems from a historical perspective? Eichengreen
brilliantly describes the backlash unleashed by economic
difficulties and dislocation periodically throughout history, and
the varying success of political regimes to rise to the challenge.
Historical treatments with their
focus on deeply rooted processes can be fatalistic. Eichengreen
nicely sidesteps that trap, with a hopeful, constructive message
pointing the way forward." --Dani Rodrik, Harvard University
"In The Populist Temptation, Barry Eichengreen, amongst the
foremost international economists today, explains why we are seeing
an outburst of populist movements across the industrial world, and
how they mirror similar movements from history. He argues that
while the populists have genuine grievances, the solutions their
leaders propose are unlikely to work. Eichengreen is skeptical that
populists' concerns can be addressed easily. However, his
insightful analysis is an essential starting point for anyone who
wants to understand one of the most important developments of our
times." --Raghuram G. Rajan, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished
Service Professor
of Finance, University of Chicago
"Barry Eichengreen has written a characteristically lucid book on
the contemporary threat of populism." - Financial Times
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